The FAST mission was launched in August 1996 in a 400 x 4000 km polar orbit about the earth carrying UCLA fluxgate and search coil magnetometers. R. J. Strangeway has been analyzing many of the observations of this mission.

FEDSAT

Australian satellite to carry a UCLA magnetometer when launched in 2002.

The Galileo spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on December 7, 1995 carrying a complement of in situ and remote sensing instruments. C. T. Russell is an interdisciplanary scientist on this mission emphasizing the understanding of the dynamics of the magnetsphere, the sources and loss of plasmas, the interactions between the moons and the magntosphereic plasma and the planetary magnetic field.

UCLA has developed a low cost, high precision magnetometer with precise GPS-dervived timing. These magnetometers are now being installed world wide and the data being distributed. Peter Chi and C. T. Russell are involved in this effort.

The Near Earth Asteroid mission orbited and then landed on the S-class asteroid 433 Eros carrying a suite of geochemical and geophysical instrumentation. C. T. Russell was a member of the magnetometer team.

The Polar spacecraft carried a set of in situ and remote sensing intruments into high altitude polar earth orbit beginning in February 1996. The magnetometer has been furnishing measurments on the Polar cusp, field aligned currents and ULF waves. The UCLA effort is lead by the principal investigator C. T. Russell with assistance from P. Chi and T. S. Hsu.